Howard Roark

As I am not an expert at this can someone tell me how to do this? where do you get the original 1.0 rom image?

swhoutx035

Originally Posted by Howard Roark

As I am not an expert at this can someone tell me how to do this? where do you get the original 1.0 rom image?

Hi Howard Roark. The original ROM was posted on the HP website with the updated ROM. I haven't checked recently though. You use the same procedure to load the original ROM as you did the upgrade, except you use the original file.

AshleyJ

I think you will find that the 'English' version of the original ROM is no longer available from that site. You will have to get it from the Compaq ftp site here.
I can not remember the file number but it's on that page somewhere.

Howard Roark

No can't find it there.

Understandable as HP's sabotage of our 4700s would not be complete without removal of the original ROM file....but only those wanting English. Who says HP doesnt have a sense of humour

imported_airhead

It's there Howard, cleverly hidden about halfway down the list. Downloaded it myself today just in case it is removed forever. Haven't up(??)graded to 1.1 as 1.0 is working fine for me, and don't want any hassles. Look for SP29741, at about 25M in size, and there is a text d/l right next to it for install directions. Hope this helps.
Bill.......;-)

Howard Roark

Many thanks Bill, I looked for about an hour this morning but I guess I was half asleep. And congrats on *not* upgrading your 4700 and ruining an expensive extended battery like I did. Not only did it whack the extended batteries, normal usage consumes power at a noticeable rate especially the wi-fi. Gives it that retro feel of PDAs with 1-2 hours of usable life.

MarkAR

Bill, are there any restrictions - I have tried accessing the ftp site but it says that I do not have permission. help

Regs

MarkAR
(mark.a.riley@ntlworld.com)

AshleyJ

Originally Posted by MarkAR

Bill, are there any restrictions - I have tried accessing the ftp site but it says that I do not have permission. help Regs MarkAR (mark.a.riley@ntlworld.com)

No restrictions as far as I can tell. I use Firefox with cookies turned off and it works fine for me

imported_airhead

Running Firefox as well (Wouldn't it be great if there was a PPC version of Firefox? Would ditch IE in a second, just like on the PC) and had no problems accessing the site. Some warnings did come up, can't remember exactly what they were (who ever does?) but clicked past them and had no problems with the D/L.
Bill..............;-)

AshleyJ

Hopefully sometime soon there will be a FF for PPC. Personally I do very little browsing using my 4700 as I am usually out and about with it so it is not a great problem.

As for the downloading from the ftp site I have just tried again and did not get any warnings so I don't know what's going on there

Simvastatin

besides the original works fine...yes still comes on by itself every night at midnight but only for 1 min. then turns off
and i've got the super capacity battery on order and glad to know with the original rom no worries with its capacity being read correctly.

MarkAR

Guys, many thanks. Downloaded and installed FF and got to it straight away - oh the joys of Microsoft

Cheers again.

AshleyJ

Originally Posted by MarkAR

Guys, many thanks. Downloaded and installed FF and got to it straight away - oh the joys of Microsoft Cheers again.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Fire Fox

Now all you have got to do is download and install the hundreds of extensions that are available to make using FF an even better experience. My personal preferences are:
Addblock - blocks adds
Tabbbrowser Preferences - settings manager for tabbed browsing
PrefBar - easy access to popups, cookies etc.
Spellbound - spell checker

imported_Frost

Originally Posted by airhead

Running Firefox as well (Wouldn't it be great if there was a PPC version of Firefox? Would ditch IE in a second, just like on the PC) Bill..............;-)

Actually, there is a PPC version of FireFox (well, Mozilla...) but it sucks, as it's a very early version and is buggy.